Thomas Stockwell of Grimston 1786 Will

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1786

In the Name of God Amen the Eighteenth Day of April in the year of our Lord 1778 I Thomas Stockwell of Grimston in the County of Leicester yeoman being very Sick and weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be to God, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament That is to say

Principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it hoping through the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ my only Saviour and Redeemer to receive pardon of all my Sins and as for my Body to be Buried in a Christian like manner at the Discretion of my Executrix and Executor hereafter nominated

The rest of my worldly goods I give devise and dispose of them in the following manner and form

Item I Give to my Son John Stockwell one Shilling

Item I Give to my Son William Stockwell the sum of Ten Pounds

Item I Give to my Son Samuel Stockwell one Shilling

Item I Give to my Daughter Mary Ebbage one Shilling

Item I Give to my Son Henry Stockwell the Sum of Fifty Pouds

Item all the rest of my goods and Chattles ready Money Bills and bonds Houshould goods and Moveables and quick Stock I give and Bequeath to Mary my beloved Wife and to Thomas Stockwell my eldest Son and do make them my Sole Executor and Executrix of this my last Will and Testament

And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all other Wills and Testaments, upon Condition that they Shall pay all my Debts and Legacies and Burial Charges Ratifying and Confirming this my last Will and Testament

In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Day and year above Written

                                                                                                                The mark of Thos Stockwell

Sign’d Seal’d Publish’d and pronounc’d and Declar’d by the Said Thomas Stockwell as his last Will and Testament In the presence of us the Subscribers

Thos Kelham

William Bonner

Tho Hemsly

30 Oct 1786 Mary Stockwell and Thomas Stockwell Executors within named were then sworn to the due execution of the within written Will and at the same time made oath That the Testator did not die possessed of a personal Estate to the value of six hundred pounds as they verily believed

                                                                                                                Before us H Woodcock Commissary